Last week, an infamous terrorist commander was killed by the Security Forces. This was one of many such insurgency operations over the week which lead to loss of lives involved in armed combat with security forces and resulted in the maker meeting his creations (allegedly being involved in terrorist activities) in troubled Kashmir. However, the […]

So if this New Yorker humour piece teaches you anything, it is that journalists need to be asking a whole new host of questions to keep up with this new era we seem to be living in. There was a time I thought a WTH (if not WTF) series was in order — there is so […]

With the post of the state’s women’s commission chairperson lying vacant since the last one and half months, Jharkhand is witnessing a spurt in crimes against women.

Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, the first male UN Women Ambassador for South Asia, and the force behind the MARD- Men Against Rape and Discrimination Campaign, has written two poems about sexual assault.  He has also written a letter on gender issues to his daughter, as part of the same campaign. The poems are part of Hindustan […]

Indie publisher Yoda Press has just released First Hand, a collection of graphic non-fiction narratives, conceptualised and edited by Vidyun Sabhaney and renowned graphic artist Orijit Sen. Sen in fact worked with independent journalist Neha Dixit on the piece entitled ‘The Girl Not From Madras’, a hard-hitting story that stemmed out of Dixit’s own reportage […]